"I don't know (what will happen before the deadline)," Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said Wednesday morning on 98.5 The Sports Hub's Toucher & Rich show. "We're opportunistic. There's a lot of different things that can happen...

But I think there's not teams that are looking to make those kinds of major changes, is my perspective right now heading into this trade deadline. So I'm not sure what may happen.

It is an odd moment in the NBA for the trade deadline. With so many contending teams in the West, and there being such a distinguished line between the contenders and the pretenders in the East, it's hard to see where the major changes will be save for the possibility of Goran Dragic being moved.

My personal hope is that a contending team finally comes to their senses, and realizes that Brandon Bass could benefit their team more than a future second round pick.

20 years ago. 20 years is a long time. But the optimism that Pervis Ellison and Dominique Wilkins brought to Celtics fans in the summer of 1994 was nothing short of intoxicating. At the time, after coming off the 1994 campaign which was unequivocally the most disastrous Celtics' team of my short life, anything was bound to get you optimistic. ML Carr inked Dominique. And then he got "Never Nervous" Pervis Ellison. The pieces were falling into place for a deep playoff run in my mind.